...motion of royal favor towards Shakspeare. Now he, in words which leave no room for doubt, exclaims, * ' Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee...of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James.' These princes, then, were taken, were fascinated, with some of Shakspeare's dramas. In Elizabeth the...

...even so the race Of Shakspeare's mii;d and manners brightly shines In his well turned and true filed lines : In each of which he seems to shake a lance,...of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James...

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...its associations with Shakspere. His conteraporarie connected his fame with his native river : — " Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee...the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our Jame« !" So wrote Jonson in his manly lines, " To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William...

...before his time, is deeply interesting. That he was estimated highly we know from Jonson himself: " Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee...And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That did so take Eliza and our James." When the two monarchs under whom Shakspeare lived admired and patronized...

...in his issue ; even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-tornSd and true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to...so did take Eliza and our James ! But stay; I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a constellation there : Shine forth, thou star of poets,...

...his time, is deeply interesting. That he was estimated highly we know from Jonson himself : — '* Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee...banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James." When the two monarchs under whom Shakspeare lived admired and patronized him, we may be sure that Shakspeare's...

...only a few brief quotations. It was Ben Jonson who styled our poet the " Sweet Swan of Avon" — " Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee...banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James 1 " The lines of Gray, in his " Progress of Poesy," have been much and deservedly admired : — " Far...

...notoriety ; for Ben Jonson, in his celebrated eulogy, thus apostrophises his departed friend : — Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee...the banks of Thames, That so did take .Eliza and our .Tames. The latter monarch was present at the representation of many of his pieces, and is stated by...

...Ben Jonson that she justly appreciated the dramatist who was the brightest ornament of her reign ; " Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee...appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames Thai so did take Eliza and our James !"-''' " To the Memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William...